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[[stamp]] THE NATIONAL ARCHIVE OF THE UNITED STATES [[/stamp]] WAR DEPARTMENT, BUREAU REFUGEES, FREEDMEN, AND ABANDONED LANDS, Washington, Jan. 22, 1867. [CIRCULAR LETTER.] The Bureau Officer's Manual, recently published, was designed to systematize and regulate the manner of accounting for the public money and property held by officers of this Bureau; to establish allowances to officers, and to restrict within proper limits issues made to officers and other persons authorized to draw supplies from this Bureau. Many errors therein have been discovered and corrected. That other errors, if any, may be corrected, and a thoroughly revised edition be published at an early day, you are requested to transmit, as soon as practicable, to the undersigned such suggestions as you may deem important, whether of changes or modifications of the Regulations, or alterations of or additions to the Forms now established. O. O. Howard, Maj.-Gen., Commissioner. Official Henry M Whittlesey Bvt. Brig.-Gen. and Chief Q.M. To Maj Genl Wager Swayne Asst. Commissioner State of Alabama